Paper box.



No. 7l3,624. Patented Nov. I8, I902.

J. T. FERRES.

PAPER BOX.

licatiun med Nov. 19, (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

UNiTED STA PATENT Orrrcn.

JEFFREY T. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,624, dated November18, 1902.

Application filed November 19, 1901. Serial No. 82,897. (lilo model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFREY T. Fnnnns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Anderson,in the county of Madison, in the State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes, ofwhich the following is a description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention has for its primary object the provision of a simple,cheap, and convenient box for the reception and handling of blocks orbricks of ice-cream, but useful for other purposes as well.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank forthe bottom portion or body of my improved box; Fig. 2, a perspectiveview of the same folded into box form; Fig. 8, a vertical crosssectionof Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a plan View of the blank from which the top or lidportion of my improved box is formed; Fig. 5, a perspective view of thesame folded into lid form; Fig. 6, a perspective view of the box of Fig.2 with the lid of Fig. 5 applied thereto, and Fig. 7 a verticalcross-section of Fig. 6.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate corresponding partsin the several views.

The bottom or body portion of the box is composed of the rectangularbottom A, the end walls B D, hinged to the opposite ends thereof andprovided with the extensions B D, the front and rear walls E C, hingedto the front and rear edges of the bottom A and provided with the endextensions 9 e and c c and with the outer extensions E C, respectively.The end walls B D are flared outwardly from the ends of the bottom'A totheir junction with the extensions B D, while the latter are taperedinwardly from their junction with the end walls B D to their outer ends.The rear and front walls 0 E are likewise flared outwardly from thebottom A to their junction with the extensions 0 E, while the latter aretapered inwardly from such junctionlines to their outer ends. It resultsfrom this construction that when "the blank is folded into box form, asin Fig. 2, the body of the box is outwardly flared from its bottom tothe upper edges of its side and end walls, as shown. The end extensions06 of the side walls of the box are folded inwardly and pasted to theend walls B D to secure the box in shape.

The lid of the box shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is a substantial duplicate ofthe bottom portion or body of the box, excepting that it is unprovidedwith any vertical extensions of its side and end walls corresponding tothe extensions B O D" E of the walls of the body of the box. WVhenfolded into lid form, as in Fig. 5, and secured therein by the past ingof the side extensions 0 c to the end walls B D, the lid is adapted tofit down over the tapered vertical extensions B O D E of the body of thebox and inclose and be supported by the same, as shown in Fig. 6.

The complete box, including the lid, is made of about the some height asthe thickness of the ordinary brick of ice-cream, so that when thelatter is placed in the bottom portion or body of the box about one-halfof it will project above the walls of the box, thus permitting it to beconveniently grasped for insertion in or removal from the box. Theflaring shape of the box not only facilitates the insertion and removalof the block of cream, but it permits the boxes, and their lids also, tofit snugly within one another and be nested in compact form for storageand shipment.

The pasting-flaps c e may of course be transposed from the side walls 0E to the end walls B D and be pasted to the side walls 0 E instead ofbeing arranged as shown in the drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- 1. A paper boxcomprising a bottom having hinged thereto vertically extendingoutwardly-flaring side andend walls provided with inwardly-taperingvertical extensions, and a lid composed of a top portion andvertically-depending outWardly-fiarin g side and end walls adapted tofit over and inclose and be supported by thevertically-projectingtapering extensions of the side and end walls of the body of the box;substantially as described.

2. The herein-described box -body,com prising the rectangular bottom A,the outwardlyfiaring end walls B D hinged thereto and provided with theinwardly-tapering extensions B D, and the outwardly-flaring side walls 0E provided with the inwardly-tapering extensions C E and with the endextensions 0 e pasted to the end Walls B D, in combination with the lidcomprising the rectangular top A, outwardly-flaring end Walls B D, andthe outwardly-flaring side Walls 0 E provided with the end extensions 0e pasted to the end extensions B D, and adapted to fit down over andinclose and be supported by the vertically-projecting tapered extensionsB G" D E upon the body of the box; substantially as described.

3. The herein-described box-body comprising the bottom A, theoutwardly-flaring end walls 13, D, and side Walls 0, E, all hinged tosaid bottom and the separate pairs of extensions B D and O E hingedrespectively to the said end walls and the said sidewalls, incombination with a lid comprising the top A having the outwardly-flaringend walls B D and the outwardly-flaring side Walls 0' E which lid isadapted to fit down over and inclose and be supported by the saidextensions B O D E upon the body of the box; substantialiy as described.

4 A paper box comprising a bottom and side and end walls provided withinwardlytapering extensions hinged to their respective Walls butseparate from each other and a lid composed of a top and outwardlyflared or tapered side and end Walls adapted to fit over saidinwardly-tapering extensions and forming an oblique joint therewith;substantially as described.

JEFFREY T. FERRES.

WVitnesses: I

D. H. DURBIN, R. F. SoHENoK.

